Cannot remove folder name from back office url

[stevell]

I am moving my shop to a vps server but I am having issues with the admin url. 

 

The previous installation was installed in the root and not in a folder. I am using the .htaccess redirect that is generally recommended and the shop url is working fine. (see below) The problem is that when I type www.mysite/admin it redirects to www.mysite/folderName/admin. If I use this url some of the back office  pages are  blank and nothing saves.

 

If I change it to www.mysite/admin/ which includes the trailing / it stays on the correct url and everything works ok.

 

There are a number of people who use the back office and so I would like to keep it working as it always has in the past and not have a string of complaints about the back office not working. 

 

Any suggestions? 

 

Below is the .htaccess

# Copy and paste the following code into the .htaccess file
# in the public_html folder of your hosting account
# make the changes to the file according to the instructions.

# Do not change this line - RewriteEngine on
RewriteEngine on

# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mysite.com$

# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/foldername/

# Don't change this line.
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /foldername/$1

# Change yourdomain.com to be your main domain again.
# Change 'subfolder' to be the folder you will use for your main domain
# followed by / then the main file for your site, index.php, index.html, etc.
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www.)?mysite.com$
RewriteRule ^(/)?$ /index.php [L]

[El Patron]

this is probably caused by not changing the base uri, this is located in back office-->preferences-->seo and urls, basically that is where prestashop is installed.

 

as you can not access the back office you can change this using phpmyadmin

 

table: yourprefix_shop_url

 

field: physical_uri put your folder name /yourfoldername/

 

if this resolved the back office, then you will need to remove the   .htaccess rewrite as front office may not work...but it would no longer be needed.

[stevell]

Thanks for that, it looks like i'm getting closer. 

 

Now the back office url is

 

mysite.com/foldername/admin

 

the back works ok and the front still works to but now the front has gained the folder name in the url.

 

mysite.com/foldername/ 

 

I may not have made it clear in my first post that the .htaccess referred to is in the root and not in the subfolder.

I cannot remove the redirect from the .htacces in the root or the website url will no longer point to the sub folder that holds the Prestashop files.